Recipe adapted from La Vie Rustic—Cooking and Living in the French Style by Georgeanne Brennan (Weldon-Owen 2017)
Ingredients
SERVINGS: 4 Serving(s)
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon shallots, peeled and minced
- 1 tablespoon Champagne vinegar
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cups young, tender fava leaves
- 2 tablespoons whole fresh tarragon leaves
- 1 cup whole fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves
- ½ cup whole fresh chervil leaves (optional)
- 3 mandarins, peeled, segmented, seeded and cut in half crosswise
Preparation
Combine the olive oil, shallots, vinegar, salt and pepper in the bottom of a salad bowl and whisk together. Add the fava and herb leaves and half the mandarin pieces and toss gently to coat. Serve a mound on each of 4 salad plates and top with the remaining mandarin pieces.
